This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Love, once you've tasted love
Love, once you've tasted love
Love, once you've tasted love
Love, once you've tasted love
Don't be sold a dream
Remember how the past has been
Don't be led to believe this one's for you
Calculate your needs
I see there's room to plant your seeds
Don't decide |til you see how the others have grown
Once you've tasted love it is just the beginning of a new world
Once you've tasted love there's no way you can give in, oh no
Once you've tasted love
Still too early to know
Give them time and they will grow
Don't believe that the first's the one for you
Most will grow to be tall
Others will break and fall
Keep your eye on the strongest head of them all
Once you've tasted love it is just the beginning of a new world
Once you've tasted love it is just the beginning
Your head is spinning
Once you've tasted love
Once you've tasted love
Once you've tasted love
Once you've tasted love
Once you've tasted love
Once you've tasted love it is just the beginning of a new world
Once you've tasted love there's no way you can give in, oh no
Can't control your mind and your head is still spinning, oh yeah
(Once you've tasted love) once you've tasted love is just the beginning
Once you've tasted love
You've tasted love, you know it's good
Come taste my love
You know you should
Came into my world and the badness disappears
Take my hand, don't be afraid, I'm gonna work off all your fears
It feels so nice to be with you
Us two, we fit like a glove
When I see your eyes I realize you too have tasted love
You've tasted love, you know it's good
Come taste my love
You know you should
Love, once you've tasted love
Love, once you've tasted love
Love, once you've tasted love
Don't be sold a dream
Remember how the past has been
Don't be led to believe this one's for you
Calculate your needs
I see there's room to plant your seeds
Don't decide |til you see how the others have grown
Once you've tasted love it is just the beginning of a new world
Once you've tasted love there's no way you can give in, oh no
Once you've tasted love
Still too early to know
Give them time and they will grow
Don't believe that the first's the one for you
Most will grow to be tall
Others will break and fall
Keep your eye on the strongest head of them all
Once you've tasted love it is just the beginning of a new world
Once you've tasted love it is just the beginning
Your head is spinning
Once you've tasted love
Once you've tasted love
Once you've tasted love
Once you've tasted love
Once you've tasted love
Once you've tasted love it is just the beginning of a new world
Once you've tasted love there's no way you can give in, oh no
Can't control your mind and your head is still spinning, oh yeah
(Once you've tasted love) once you've tasted love is just the beginning
Once you've tasted love
You've tasted love, you know it's good
Come taste my love
You know you should
Came into my world and the badness disappears
Take my hand, don't be afraid, I'm gonna work off all your fears
It feels so nice to be with you
Us two, we fit like a glove
When I see your eyes I realize you too have tasted love
You've tasted love, you know it's good
Come taste my love
You know you should
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